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Zoa: ‘us Jews Realizing Their Mistake on Obama’
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN
Categories: Today's Headlines;Anti-Israel

Rubin Margules, a member of the Zionist Organization of America’s National Executive Board, told Israel National News that American Jews have begun to realize they made a mistake by voting for U.S. President Barack Obama.

Margules, who accompanied former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on his trip to Judea and Samaria Tuesday, said Israel should learn to find alliances outside of the U.S. and act in its own best interests.

The Iranian leadership believes that they are now entering the Apocalyptic Age
Aug 19th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

Speaking at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the renowned scholar and historian Bernard Lewis told his audience that Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the leadership of Iran believe they are now entering the Apocalyptic Age which will result in the triumph of their messianic figure.

Lewis said that Iran is a mortal threat and reminded those attending his lecture that Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has an End Times scenario reminding them that holy war is a part of the Islamic religion and part of holy law. Lewis then added that the threat of many Iranians perishing in a war did not deter the Iranian leadership. They believe that death this way would give Iranians a free pass to the Islamic heaven.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The thinking by the Iranian leadership that they are now entering the Apocalyptic Age actually conforms to the End Times scenario that is found in Bible prophecy.

The statement by the renowned scholar and historian, Bernard Lewis, that Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Iran's leadership believe they are entering the Apocalyptic Age is evidence that the Islamic world does have an eschatology, a theology that has an End Times scenario. The outdated concepts of M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) prevalent during the Cold War years, are irrelevant when it comes to Iran and its leadership. The Iranian president and his circle see such a scenario as an incentive, not a deterrent.

This apocalyptic desire of the radical Shiite Muslim is at the center of much of what's happening in the Middle East today and does fit into Bible prophecy. The ancient, Jewish, New Testament Prophet John wrote the book entitled, "The Apocalypse", or better known as the book of Revelation which describes the End Time Apocalyptic Age. Revelation 4:2 - 19:10 describes the seven year period of massive judgment on the face of the Earth. Revelation 19 describes the "Mother of all battles", "the Apocalyptic War", the Battle of Armageddon.

Ahmadinejad is correct, we are indeed entering the Apocalyptic Age.

Planeload of Jews Land and Declare Israel Their New Home
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Barauch Gordon
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

 
A jumbo El Al airliner touched down at Ben Gurion International airport early Wednesday morning with 366 Jews aboard who all packed their belongings, kissed North America goodbye, and now continue their lives as residents of the Jewish State.



The planeload of North Americans was preceded by 23,000 others in the past seven years who made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) through the Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN) organization, a group dedicated to revitalizing Jewish immigration to Israel en masse from North America and the UK.

Olim step off the transport bus and review the thousand strong welcome party waiting for them

Israel news photo: Baruch Gordon




A Torah scroll makes aliyah

Israel news photo: Baruch Gordon

 The charter flight follows a group aliyah flght (a block of reserved seats in a regular commercial El Al flight) that departed from Canada Monday carrying 48 olim (new immigrants) to Israel. Another group flight will depart later Wednesday from Newark airport, capping off forty-eight hours in which 455 Western new immigrants will be making aliyah through Nefesh B'Nefesh.

The newcomers are among more than 3,000 Western immigrants moving to Israel on 16 flights this summer as part of an ongoing "aliyah revolution" launched by the NBN organization in 2002.




World renowned Torah Scholar Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt and his son Yitzchak make aliyah

Israel news photo: Baruch Gordon




All OK for a new Israeli family

Israel news photo: Baruch Gordon

Forty-six people from Wednesday's flight will be moving to Israel's northern region as part of NBN's "Go North" program, a historic initiative which encourages Western olim to settle in northern Israel, by providing enhanced financial, employment and social support. "Go North" aims to bring over 1,000 immigrants to Israel's morth over the next few years and will have assisted 32 families by the end of this summer.

Minister of Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edestein told the olim at the welcome reception that he toured towns in the north on Tuesday and heard from local residents of the dire need to bring more Jews to populate the region, which has a large Arab presence. Edelstein opened his remarks saying that it is a sad day for him as Minister of Diaspora Affairs as he now has 366 less people for whom he is responsible in his government portfolio. "But as a Jew and a Zionist, it is a very happy day," he said.



A Mexican? American? Now Israeli!

Israel news photo: Baruch Gordon

Obama in Middle East Rut
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Tzvi Ben Gadalyahu
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

 
U.S. President Barack Obama, who before taking office said he would “hit the ground running” in the Middle East, said Tuesday his peace plan is in a rut. He turned to visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help him get out of the ditch, but Washington analysts are skeptical.

The president continued to express optimism despite the Arab world’s refusal to make token gestures to Israel, such as improving cultural ties and allowing Israel’s El Al Airlines to fly in their skies.

Israel has taken further steps to fall in line with President Obama’s policy by continuing to freeze the issuance of tenders for new construction for Jews in Judea and Samaria. The Netanyahu government has been involved in semantics, with Housing Minister Ariel Attias (Shas) saying the strategy is a “waiting policy” that allows a renewal of talks with the Palestinian Authority.

He declined to use the term “a freeze on building,” and work is continuing on projects already underway, while PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas demands it be stopped before he sits down with the Netanyahu government.

As President Obama praised Israel’s “waiting policy,” Mubarak implicitly criticized the American government by stating that issues such as “settlements’ are blocking the peace talks.

”We need to move to the final status solution and level," Mubarak told reporters at the White House meeting. "I have contacted the Israelis and they said, 'Perhaps we can talk about a temporary solution,' but I told them 'No.' I told them, 'Forget about the temporary solution, forget about temporary borders.'"

The President responded, "If all sides are willing to move off of the rut that we're in currently, then I think there is an extraordinary opportunity to make real progress, but we are not there yet."

The lack of synchronization between the Egyptian and American presidents was illustrated by Mubarak’s comment that the U.S. will unveil a new peace blueprint by next month. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied that such a plan exists.

The liberal-leaning and previously pro-Obama Washington Post newspaper stated Tuesday that President Obama is walking down the wrong alley by depending on Mubarak to return Israel and the PA to the Roadmap.

Despite Mubarak’s praise of President Obama for his “reaching out to the Muslim world” speech in Cairo in June, the Washington Post editorial stated, “For several years now, the Egyptian regime has been promising Washington that it will broker an end to the rift between Hamas and the more moderate Palestinian Authority, end the smuggling of weapons to militants in Gaza and obtain the release of an Israeli soldier held hostage since 2006. It has failed on all three counts.”

It reminded readers that Mubarak’s support for American policies “has been lukewarm at best” and cited Egypt’s suggestion in a televised interview on Monday that the U.S. was wrong to be waging war against terror in Afghanistan.

“No amount of coddling by Mr. Obama is likely to change the behavior of Mr. Mubarak, who has 28 years of experience in deflecting U.S. initiatives,” the editorial surmised.

American media also have noted that Mubarak’s frail health may limit his ability to help President Obama, while the Politico.com website noted that the new president’s troubled health care reform and the investigation of interrogation abuses overshadow the Israel-Arab struggle for the administration.

Israel: Settlement Freeze Has Been in Place for Months, Nothing New
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Tuesday denied reports earlier in the day that he had struck a deal with Defense Minister Ehud Barak to halt the growth of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and the eastern side of Jerusalem in compliance with US President Barack Obama's demands.

In fact, Netanyahu's office noted, a de facto settlement freeze has been in place for about four months, since Netanyahu took office.

Netanyahu has declined to approve any new construction starts in Jewish communities in those areas claimed by the Palestinians since becoming prime minister, despite his firm insistence that Jews, like Arabs, should be permitted to build and live wherever they choose.

Israeli officials said that while Netanyahu has refrained from drawing public attention to the settlement freeze until now, international peace brokers who needed to know were well aware of his government's actions.

During a press conference with visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Washington on Tuesday, Obama said he was very "encouraged" by the public revelation that Israel is no longer allowing Jews to build houses on their ancient lands.

Huckabee: There Can be No Palestinian State Here
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

Wrapping up his visit to the Holy Land on Tuesday, former US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said it was "unrealistic" to propose establishing a sovereign Palestinian Arab state alongside the Jewish state of Israel.

Huckabee suggested that the small sliver of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is simply too small to support two sovereign states, especially when many of the citizens of one seek the eradication of the other.

"There is going to be nothing but conflict" if the international community insists on layering two governments and two nations so often at odds with each other, he said.

Huckabee's recommendation is that the international community honor its decision made at the San Remo Conference in 1920 to return the entirety of the land to Jewish control, and to find a different place for the Palestinians to call their national home.

While he didn't go into specifics, many Israelis to the right of the political spectrum have noted that at San Remo, the international community also ceded to Jewish control all of what is today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. When the territory east of the Jordan River was separated to make room for another Arab state, that should have satisfied past and present calls for a Palestinian national homeland. In fact, 70 percent of Jordan's population are "Palestinians."

Huckabee is touted by some as a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Huckabee refrained to say if he would run for that office or not, but did say that as US president he would defer to Israel regarding how best to solve the conflict, even though he personally doesn't see the two-state solution as workable.

Huckabee in Jerusalem: No Pa State in Holy Land
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Hillel Fendel
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

 "I keep coming back to this simple truth: Israel deserves a safe homeland," said former – and possibly future – U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Wednesday during a visit to the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem.

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Huckabee is on his third and last day of his 12th trip to Israel, during which he has visited Jewish sites in eastern Jerusalem, Maaleh Adumim, Beit El, the Shomron (Samaria) and elsewhere. He repeatedly expressed the right of Israelis to live wherever they desire without fear of foreign intervention, and said he sees no need for a new Arab state to arise in the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria.

Huckabee finished second in the race to become the Republican party's candidate for president last year, and though he has not yet announced whether he will run again in 2012, he is considered the early front-runner. He implied that he would have something to say on the topic in his Fox News TV program at the end of this week.

Huckabee's hosts brought him on Wednesday to the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem, which memorializes the dynamic community life in Gush Katif and its abrupt end during the Disengagement/expulsion in 2005. He was accompanied by MK Ayoub Kara of the Likud and Chabad Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe. The mini-dais set up in the museum for the occasion thus comprised a Zionist Druze, a former Christian pastor and a Jewish rabbi.

Emphasizing that his positions are not anti-U.S., Huckabee emphasized the "organic" relationship he perceives between Israel and the U.S. "Both countries were established under similar circumstances," he said, "when people manifested tremendous self-sacrifice to create a society of liberty and freedoms." Asked when did he become a Zionist, he said, "I'm not a Zionist, I'm just a realist, and a lover of liberty – a value that is celebrated and common in both of our countries."

Asked by Israel National News whether he is confident that pro-American, pro-Israeli, and anti-Palestinian-state views such as his would garner strong support in a future national election, given the increasing Muslim influence in the West, Huckabee joked, "I'm not 100 percent sure. Otherwise I would have been in a very different position right now [President of the United State. But I do feel that Americans are in favor of liberty."

Rabbi Wolpe told Huckabee that "unfortunately, President Obama has declared war on G-d, in that this land was given by Him to the Jewish People. When you visit this museum and see the expulsion of Jews from their land in Gaza, know that our goal today is to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen again to tens of thousands of Jews in Judea and Samaria."

Huckabee spent several minutes in the museum's 'black room," in which disturbing video scenes of the actual expulsion from a synagogue in Gush Katif are repeatedly screened. He asked many questions, particularly when he saw soldiers focibly removing struggling youngsters, followed by scenes of soldiers and residents embracing, a crying policeman holding a Torah scroll, and other similar paradoxes

Armey: We'll March on Washington Against Obamacare
Aug 19th, 2009
Daily NewsNewsmax.com - Rick Pedraza
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is organizing a march on Washington against the Obama administration’s healthcare plan that he hopes will finally finish off the Democratic push for socialized medicine.

The march, organized by Armey’s political group FreedomWorks, is scheduled for Sept. 12 and is already generating hundreds of thousands of responses, the Texas Republican tells Newsmax.TV. The group isn’t providing transportation, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem.